by News Staff | Aug 22, 2008 | Past Posts
It looks like the proposed Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Mammoth, once known as the Hillside project, will remain a hillside for a while longer. After years of work, an appeal by the Advocates for Mammoth, and a sale from the 8050 group to Cypress Equities, the hope was to...
by News Staff | Aug 22, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom find ourselves in an unusual position. We feel like defending Inyo County! Generally, we find reasons to pick on Inyo government, but we just have to take up for Inyo in the face of attacks from Mono. Supervisor Byng Hunt said...
by News Staff | Aug 22, 2008 | Past Posts
The Supervisors will consider the county’s finances during budget hearings scheduled in Bridgeport and Mammoth next week. Proposals include substantial increases in the budgets of the Supervisors themselves, the Finance Department, and the Probation Department....
by News Staff | Aug 21, 2008 | Past Posts
As law enforcement around the state combats hidden marijuana farms on public lands, the Eastern Sierra is not immune. Last year thousands of plants were removed from a series of farms in the Sierra near Independence. This year, law enforcement is back at it. The Mono...
by News Staff | Aug 21, 2008 | Past Posts
While Bear-With-Us, the new non-profit wildlife management group in Mammoth, has been up and running for close to two months, it appears that members of the Mammoth Town Council and the group are not on the same page. When Marianne OConnor with Bear-With-Us stood up...